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You'd probably have to google for details, since I'm thinking back over thirty years now, but mostly he was a colossal grump - he thought we didn't "do" freedom well, that we were "weak", and he hated rock n' roll. He was sort of a "Hey, you kids, get off of my lawn!" type. :p

You'd probably have to google for details, since I'm thinking back over thirty years now, but mostly he was a colossal grump - he thought we didn't "do" freedom well, that we were "weak", and he hated rock n' roll. He was sort of a "Hey, you kids, get off of my lawn!" type. :p

At Coretta Scott King's funeral in early 2006, Ethel Kennedy, the widow of Robert Kennedy, leaned over to him and whispered, "The torch is being passed to you." "A chill went up my spine," Obama told an aide. (Newsweek)

It has made man the measure of all things on earth—imperfect man, who is never free of pride, self-interest, envy, vanity, and dozens of other defects. We are now paying for the mistakes which were not properly appraised at the beginning of the journey. On the way from the Renaissance to our days we have enriched our experience, but we have lost the concept of a Supreme Complete Entity which used to restrain our passions and our irresponsibility.

Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn

At Coretta Scott King's funeral in early 2006, Ethel Kennedy, the widow of Robert Kennedy, leaned over to him and whispered, "The torch is being passed to you." "A chill went up my spine," Obama told an aide. (Newsweek)